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  • On a sligtly separate subject, I don't know if you came across her or her son Twm in Wales - I believe Twm is a terrific performer of his work but Welsh language only.

    Dani: First Female in AIAS Hall of Fame (and why AIAS kept it secret) Elizabeth McClung 2007

  • “Oh Twm Shone Catti very different from other thieves; funny fellow, and so good-natured that everybody loved him — so they made him magistrate, not, however, before he had become very rich man by marrying great lady who fell in love with him.”

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • In theory, this could work with any Welsh language site, but the Beeb is understandably wary of making it available to any Twm, Dic and Harri with a Welsh website.

    languagehat.com: A WELSH COURSE. 2004

  • By far the greater part of it, however, would serve for the life of any young Welsh peasant, quite as well as for that of Twm

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • _ -- The noted robber, Twm Sion or Shôn Catti, referred to at No. 24.p. 383., was a Welshman who flourished between the years 1590 and 1630.

    Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850 Various

  • Of some other forms of our earlier drama, not omitting the Welsh interludes of Twm o'r Nant, it may be possible to give illustrations in

    "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Anonymous 1902

  • So Twm had driven them home again, and was even now turning them into the old cowhouse.

    Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead Allen Raine 1885

  • Ebben Owens leant more on Gwilym and Ann, and Twm took his own way more, but further than this there was no difference in the daily routine of work.

    Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead Allen Raine 1885

  • Ebben Owens was already up to receive them, the big oak coffers in the grain room were swept out, the dry meal poured into them, and Twm the carter, with white cotton stockings kept for the occasion drawn over his feet and legs, stood in the coffers treading the meal into as hard a mass as possible.

    Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead Allen Raine 1885

  • Martin Jenkins is an aspiring writer and part-time college lecturer who is persuaded by Evan, his friend and former tutor, to break out of the torpor that envelopes him with the break-up of his marriage by investigating the life of Thomas Jeffrey Llewelyn Prichard - a one-time drover, actor and author of the 'primitive' novel Twm Shon Catty.

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

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